Part I: The Church's nature and structure. 1. The ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council --
Appendix. Modern variations of the concept of the people of God --
2. The papal primacy and the unity of the people of God --
3. The structure and tasks of the synod of bishops --
Part II: Ecumenical problems. 4. Anglican-Catholic dialogue: its problems and hopes --
Postscript --
5. Luther and the unity of the Churches --
6. The progress of ecumenism --
Part III: The Church and politics. Section I: Fundamental questions. 7. Biblical aspects of the question of faith and politics --
8. Theology and the Church's political stance --
9. Conscience in its age --
Section II: Aspects of the concept of freedom: Church --
State --
Eschaton. 10. Freedom and constraint in the Church --
11. A Christian orientation in a pluralistic democracy? --
12. Europe: a heritage with obligations for Christians --
13. Eschatology and Utopia --
14. Freedom and liberation: the anthropological vision of the 1986 Instruction Libertatis conscientia.